Monday, April 06, 2009

You know what there's not enough horror movies of? Movies revolving around the infamous urban legend that is the snuff film. Oh sure we've had the Guinea Pig series, 8MM, the grindhouse SNUFF ripoff and even some documentaries about the existence of such a flick.

But nothing recent. Except now.

The Skeleton Crew takes a turn for the surreal mixing in reality horror with snuffy like aspects. Check out the plot or rama below.

“In the early 1970’s a remote mental institution next to the Russian border was shut down by the police. Before it was closed, Dr. Andersson made a series of snuff films using his patients. The doctor filmed all the murders in 8mm and started to call himself ‘The Auteur.’ Thirty years later an American film crew arrives in Finland to shoot a horror movie about the massacre and are unaware that they are about to become the stars of their director’s real life snuff film. Instead of making a horror film, they are in one. The Auteur is slaying the Skeleton Crew one by one…

Check out the trailer below. Thanks to the Horror Geek for the heads up.